Leandro De Itaquera

Who’d have thought that autumn/winter ’99 would also be the season that knitwear got sexy? Even the word “knitwear” makes the Brits think of rocking chairs and Val Doonican. In America, however, knits have been an integral part of eveningwear since the Fifties. Skinny pastel cashmere twin-sets with full satin skirts are key components of [...]

Market capitalisation plummeted to as low as £25m from £193m in 1989, while the debt level soared. It intended to build a full-service, global media-buying capability.But an overhaul in French legislation covering the media sector in 1992 led to sharply lower profits in France, then 80 per cent of Aegis Group’s business. It is Europe’s [...]

He wields immense power, but he is probably considered less essential to the reform process than at any time since the fall of the Soviet system.Constitutionally, it is Mr Chernomyrdin who would succeed Mr Yeltsin in the event that the President was forced out of political life. His crusade against Communism, his willingness to seek [...]

But Span’s sales director, John Gavan, denies that Span recovered full fees to compensate the agency for loss of earnings. “If the company suffers a significant loss through breach of contract, we may exercise our contractual rights, which merely reflect the common law position.” But, he adds, “It is extremely rare for this to occur.”The [...]

Former sixth-formers and foreign students can keep in touch with distant friends almost without effort: e-mail takes less time than composing a letter, can be saved permanently and – most importantly – saves impoverished students the cost of stamps.Newsgroups are another common use of the Internet “There is a tremendous spectrum of value. E-mail is [...]

She goes on to suggest that men “express their love through sexual intercourse”.Women like it, too, however “Penetration is ‘proper’ sex as far as I’m concerned Other types of stimulation come into foreplay. You go in and you think ‘God, it’s nice in here, it’s so snug’.””It’s primal,” claimed a 30-year-old man, immediately. It’s not [...]

“I know there are trees standing today that I’ve helped to save.”Back at the rabbi’s place, it’s hard to hear yourself think. Most of Dick’s gang of workers are bustling about in the garden, ear defenders in place against the throbbing of the chainsaw and the head-splitting whine of the timber shredder. “I feel very [...]

When we were working on An Inspector Calls, I’d wake him up at 4am saying, “You’re wrong, you’re so wrong. I can’t believe how wrong you are”.We always say in public that our ideas merge, that we can’t remember who thought of what, but in fact it’s remarkably clear who came up with what We [...]

The officials cancelled interviews with foreign journalists, refused to discuss changes to the ballet, and admitted that it was all too “sensitive” because of the show’s links with the Cultural Revolution. “There are changes, but all have been for artistic requirements,” was all one official would admit.In a country where all mention in the media [...]

It was not true, therefore, that ordinary Albanians were duped by the schemes; rather, they understood how they worked and believed they would continue because a collapse would mean the destruction of the entire ruling order.The schemes began to cause international concern more than a year ago, and some members of the government and the [...]